A Second Chance for Yesterday

by R A Sinn

Overview

Created by historian and futurist sibling authors, A Second Chance for Yesterday is a time-twisting story of family, redemption and queer love, for fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She’s been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one day at a time.

As things spiral out of control, a long-lost friend from college reappears in her life claiming they know how to save her. Airin is charming and mysterious, and somehow knows Nev intimately well. Desperate and intrigued, Nev takes a leap of faith. A friendship born of fear slowly becomes a bond of deepest trust, and possibly love. With time running out, and the whole world of SavePoint users at stake, Nev must learn what it will take to set things right, and what it will cost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781837862047
Publisher:	Solaris
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

R A Sinn is the pseudonym for siblings Rachel Hope Cleves and Aram Sinnreich — a historian and a futurist collaborating on a time-travel narrative rooted in family dynamics. A historian and professor at the University of Victoria, Rachel Hope Cleves is the author of three books, Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (2020), Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2014), and The Reign of Terror in America (2009). Her research has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, salon.com and brainpickings.org. Her current nonfiction project is titled “A Sinner’s Guide to Food and Sex in Time.” A Professor and chair of Communication Studies at American University Aram Sinnreich’s work focuses on the intersection of culture, law and technology, with an emphasis on subjects such as emerging media and music. He is the author of three books: The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property (2019), The Piracy Crusade (2013), and Mashed Up (2010). His current nonfiction project, under contract at MIT Press, is titled The Secret Life of Data. He has also written for publications including The New York Times, Billboard, Wired, The Daily Beast, and Salon.com.

Editorial Reviews

A gripping and thought-provoking take on time travel, entangled with an emotional thread that will crack your heart open.”—Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars

“A heartfelt-spin on time-travel.”—Nathan Tavares, author of A Fractured Infinity

“One of the most mind-bending time-travel stories I’ve read in years.”—Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone

“Time glitch stans of The Matrix and Back to the Future, ye be glad!”—C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death’s Daughter

“The story broke my mind and my heart.”—Bill Wolkoff, showrunner for Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

“Fascinating and compelling.”—Booklist

“The authors infuse this plausible near future with clever science and heartwarming explorations of love and second chances. At the heart of this brilliant sci-fi conundrum is a deeply human story.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Exhilarating and unputdownable, A Second Chance for Yesterday is an intricate, clever head-rush of a novel that grabs you from the word go! R.A. Sinn deftly layers a charged emotional undercurrent into a relentlessly paced exploration of spacetime, love and hope.”—Lavanya Lakshminarayan, author of The Ten Percent Thief

From the Publisher

★ 05/29/2023

Sinn, the pseudonym for siblings Rachel Hope Cleves (Unspeakable) and Aram Sinnreich (The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property), spin an insightful and emotional story of quantum time travel in their fiction debut. It’s 11:33 p.m. on Sept. 22, 2045, when coder Nev Bourne finalizes SavePoint 2.0, an upgrade to the cutting-edge brain implant that allows users to skip back in time by five seconds. She hits run—and wakes up the morning of September 22, reliving the same day. Then, at 11:33 p.m., the same glitch resets her to the morning of September 21. So it goes: every 24 hours she travels back in time by one additional day. When she runs into notorious hacker Airin Myx, she accuses them of causing the glitch—but instead they reveal that they’ve been working with her to fix it for weeks. On a “collision course with her past,” Nev sets out to mend relationships with her needy boyfriend, domineering mother, and estranged best friend—all while falling for Airin, who’s traveling through time in the opposite direction. The authors infuse this plausible near future with clever science and heartwarming explorations of love and second chances. At the heart of this brilliant sci-fi conundrum is a deeply human story. Agent: Jennie Goloboy, Donald Maass Literary Agency. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

06/01/2023

DEBUT The reality-tech firm Qbito has made it possible to jump backwards in time with its innovative SavePoint implants and mastery of quantum physics. A flick of the wrist grants one a five-second jump backwards to avoid awkward comments, a missed shot at pool, or even a car crash. But on the eve of the rollout of SavePoint 2.0, lead programmer Nev Bourne finds herself locked in an inescapable Glitch caused by a hack in the code. Every morning she wakes up the morning of the day before, falling backwards through time and being confronted with the mistakes she's already made and can't undo. Desperate to find a way out of the Glitch, Nev teams up with an unlikely ally in Airin Myx, a hotshot hacker who remembers their collaboration to fix the code even when Nev doesn't. VERDICT The first novel by siblings Rachel Hope Cleves (Unspeakable) and Aram Sinnreich (The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property) draws on their work as a historian and a futurist. Combining accessible prose, exciting action, and deeply philosophical issues, this book would be a win for any library catering to science-fiction readers.—Lydia Fletcher

Library Journal